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En esta memoria sobre una niña, dos culturas y una lucha por la libertad, la periodista Mirta Ojito, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, vuelve al evento en su adolescencia que cambió su vida para siempre: el éxodo en el 1980 de más de 125.000 cubanos, mejor conocido como el puente marítimo del Mariel. Con perseverancia y mucho corazón, Ojito logra localizar en Cuba y Estados Unidos a los individuos ya olvidados por la historia cuyas acciones desencadenaron los sucesos que impactaron su vida y la de otros miles de cubanos a ambos lados del Estrecho de la Florida. Su libro es un relato...

The first complete biography of Alfonso López Michelsen, one of the main figures in the political and intellectual life of Colombia over the past 50 years, this book discusses the challenges and the social, economical, and security changes that have occurred in the country during the last part of the 20th century and the start of the present one. Constituyendo la primera biografía completa de una de las principales figuras de la vida política e intelectual de Colombia en los últimos 50 años, ésta obra explica los principales retos y cambios sociales, económicos y de seguridad pública...

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding...

An account of the life and achievements, and ultimate political downfall, of Simon Bolivar, the great Liberator of Spanish America, noting important events and influences from his Caracas childhood to his exile and death